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Offutt Air Force Base Is Evacuating All Flyable Aircraft
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 19, 2020
F-15E Strike Eagle Spotted Flying With An Inert B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Out Of Nellis AFB
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 14, 2020
This Strategic Air Command Airpower Demonstration From 1987 Is Just Bonkers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 8, 2020
Proposed Facility Would Drastically Cut Down Time Required To Arm Bombers On Guam
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 18, 2020
No, The United States Doesn’t Have An Automatic “Dead Hand” Trigger For Its ICBMs
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 10, 2020
Navy Missile Sub Has Begun Its First Patrol Armed With Controversial Low Yield Nukes
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 29, 2020
The Air Force’s B-52H Bomber Force Has Said Goodbye To Its Nuclear Bombs
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 19, 2020
USAF Is Spending Millions To Upgrade Turkey Bases Amid Turkish Threats To Kick Them Out
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 24, 2019
No These Aren’t Starships In Space Dock, They Are Nuclear Submarines Under Construction
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 9, 2019
B-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These Missiles
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Updating America’s Land-Based Ballistic Missile ‘Nuclear Sponge’ Is A $100B+ Waste
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
U.S. Infrared Satellite Data Could Settle The Debate Over Pakistan-India Dogfight
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
The Futuristic Cold War Era SAGE Air Defense Bunkers Looked Right Out Of A Kubrick Film
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
A-4 Skyhawks Had These Crazy Thermal Shields To Protect Pilots From Nuclear Blasts
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
U.S. Inspectors Have Examined Russia’s Imminently Operational Hypersonic Missile
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 26, 2019
The AGM-86C Cruise Missile That Introduced GPS Guided Weaponry Is Bowing Out Of Service
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 24, 2019
This Is How The Russian Military Tests If Its Vehicles Can Stand Up To A Nuclear Blast
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 14, 2019
Air Force Updates Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bombs Amid New Iranian Nuclear Posturing
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 13, 2019
U.S. Sells Seized North Korean Freighter As Pyongyang Threatens Nuke And Missile Tests
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 10, 2019
U.S. To Spend Hundreds Of Millions To Replace A $5 Part In Revamped Nuclear Weapons
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 26, 2019
Russia Changes Position On Radiation Leaks Again Weeks After Nuclear Missile Explosion
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 26, 2019
Let’s Talk About The Post-INF Treaty U.S. Test Of A Ground-Launched Tomahawk Missile
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 19, 2019
This Crazy Blue Flash From A Nuclear Reactor Firing Up Looks Right Out Of Science Fiction
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 18, 2019
Russia’s Fire-Damaged “Losharik” Spy Submarine Heads For Repairs As New Details Emerge
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 16, 2019
Russia’s New Surveillance Plane Just Flew Over Two Of America’s Top Nuclear Labs
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 15, 2019
U.S. Training For Arctic Nuclear Satellite Disaster Amid Russian Weapons Developments
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 26, 2019
Home Of Strategic Command And Some Of The USAF’s Most Prized Aircraft Is Flooding (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 16, 2019
Here’s How The Pentagon Plans To Create A New U.S. Space Command Within Months
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 10, 2019
Get To Know America’s Long Serving B61 Family Of Nuclear Bombs
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Laser McLazerface? Kremlin Crowdsourcing Names For Putin’s New Super Weapons
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Here’s The Six Super Weapons Putin Unveiled During Fiery Address
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
The US Air Force Wants a Trio of More Modern WC-135R Nuke Sniffing Planes
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
USAF’s New Bomber Roadmap Could Bust-Up Key Arms Control Treaty With the Russians
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019